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Dhilip Ravikanth

Program / Project /Delivery Manager
Chennai,TN

Summary

Global Quality Engineer versed in US and international production and delivery realities. Incorporates vast knowledge of shipping, delivery and packaging regulations. Comfortable leading risk management and production fulfillment anywhere. Effective quality professional bringing proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives in Quality Engineer roles. Focused and diligent with commitment to fostering corporate mission. Consistently acknowledged for implementing actionable initiative to reduce error rates and optimize company processes.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Engineer

Qwest Communications Denver CO
  • Over the span of 18 years I have worked on major project Roles such as.
  • Test Strategy and Transformation Consultant for Worldpay and CISCO.
  • Expertise in E2E Test Management and QA delivery processes.
  • Experience in testing Client-Server, Windows/Web based applications.
  • Test Manager for Worldpay Vantiv and Nielsen Company Projects.
  • Release Manager for Qwest Wireless USA.
  • Expertise in managing Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Risk based testing.
  • Conversant in all Phases of project SDLC/STLC including software quality Standards, Configuration management, Risk & Change Management.
  • Effective leadership skills with good written and verbal communication, presentation skills with focused result-oriented Approach and possess strong work ethic and team spirit.
  • Self-starter and demonstrated Leadership and interpersonal skills throughout the career and taken up varied challenging roles.

Delivery and Transformation Manager

The Nielsen Company Florida USA
  • Key Projects Projects – TCS: Project EQA and SDLC Tools Customer Worldpay Vantiv, Responsibilities.
  • Managing Quality Assurance and Automation Team.
  • Offshore team setup & team building.
  • Offshore Hybrid Agile team setup.
  • Transition from manual testing to In-sprint Automation in all trains.
  • Onsite & Offshore tools and environment setup.
  • Reviews and Approval of Test strategy-BCP.
  • Managing Scrum of scrum meetings.
  • Resource Planning and Allocation.
  • Co-ordination across multiple geo-locations.
  • Quality & Metrics Reviews.
  • Reporting weekly Project Status Location Atlanta USA and Bangalore, Project - Nielsen Online Customer.

E2E Test/Program Manager

Location Tampa
  • Managing Test Team Onshore.
  • Offshore team setup & team building.
  • Onsite & Offshore environment setup.
  • Reviews and Approval of Test strategy.
  • Managing Scrum of scrum meetings.
  • Resource Planning and Allocation.
  • Co-ordination across geographical locations.
  • Quality Reviews & Metrics collection.
  • Conducting Defect Triage Meetings.
  • Reporting Daily Project Status, Project 3 Release Management - QWEST Wireless Customer.

Release Manager / Test Analyst / Test Lead Onsite / Test Manager

Qwest Communications
Denver, CO
  • USA Descript ion Release Management & Late Change Request process.
  • Work with Project Manager/System Leads, SCM and Release Engineers to resolve release issues.
  • Work with the Project Manager/System Leads and the support groups to deployments.
  • Updates data in the Dimensions tool as required.
  • Maintain the Milestone Planning Document.
  • Maintains the Change Control Board’s Agenda items Inputs: Requests for Agenda Items, new Change Request and Status Approvals received by QWEST Directors for Deployment Milestone Change Requests Problems in Testing and Bug report to determine Software Change Request Status Outputs.
  • Schedules, announces, and facilitates Change Control Review Board Meetings,.
  • Work with Project Manager/System Leads, SCM and Release Engineers to resolve release issues.
  • Work with the Project Manager/System Leads and the support group deployments.
  • Updates data in the Dimensions tool as required.
  • Maintain the Milestone Planning Document.
  • Maintains the Change Control Board’s Agenda Role, Managing BAU activities of Onsite/Offshore.
  • Managing the Data /Code Software migration.
  • Checking status of Development Team & deliverables.
  • Checking Testing Team Status and Report.
  • Conducting Change Control Board (CCB) Meetings.
  • Approvals for Software Change Request and Status Tools HP Dimensions, Mercury interactive & QC Work Location.

Software Engineer

Consultant Designate

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2002 - Current

Organization Contractor

Tata Consultancy Services through Cybernetics
Denver Colorado, USA
03.2001 - 03.2002

Skills

Quality assurance

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Timeline

Consultant Designate

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2002 - Current

Organization Contractor

Tata Consultancy Services through Cybernetics
03.2001 - 03.2002

Software Engineer

Release Manager / Test Analyst / Test Lead Onsite / Test Manager

Qwest Communications

E2E Test/Program Manager

Location Tampa

Delivery and Transformation Manager

The Nielsen Company Florida USA

Quality Engineer

Qwest Communications Denver CO
Dhilip RavikanthProgram / Project /Delivery Manager